mundation

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin mundātio (“cleaning”), from mundō (“I make clean”), from mundus (“clean, neat, elegant”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (“to wash, wet”). Cognate with Dutch mooi (“nice, beautiful, sheen”).

Noun

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mundation (countable and uncountable, plural mundations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of cleaning.
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